Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center
Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 2
Auto-generated transcript: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلات السلام عليه الشرف الانبياء والمرسلين محمد رسول الله ﷺ تسليمان كثيران كثيران. اب ماں بعدو بھائیو، ہمیں حدیث اور لسنوں سے بھی دیکھ رہے ہیں۔ ہاتم الاسم رحمت اللہ علیہ غوروں اور متوقعات ہیں۔ اللہ تعالیٰ اس درجات انتباہ کرے۔ یہ اسلام کی تنبیہ اور علم بدنے کے وجہ ہے کہ اللہ تعالیٰ It causes your name and causes your memory to remain long after you have gone. We are talking about somebody who died in 1851 and today it is, this year is 2026. سو سو ہر ہزار سال پہلے اور ہم اس نام کو بھی اپنے نام کو احترام کرتے ہیں۔ Not because we are connected in some other way, but because of Islam and because of the teaching of Islam. So, therefore, it is very important for us to keep this in mind. So, he mentioned, as I said, eight things that when the Sheikh asked him, what did you learn from me, he said eight things. And the first of it we have mentioned yesterday where he said, what did he say? انہیں اس زندگی میں کھانا چاہتا ہے۔ ایک ساتھ رسول اللہ ﷺ نے کہا کہ آپ کے ساتھ اپنی صحابتوں ہوتی ہے۔ تو میں نے اپنے صحابتوں کے لئے ایک حب کو پیدا کیا۔ کیونکہ سب صحابتیں ہو جائیں گے۔ یہ صحابتیں نہیں ہوتی۔ اگر آپ صحابتیں ہوتی ہیں تو آپ کو اپنے گھر میں اپنے خبر میں اچھا مہارت ہے۔ So he said, I have tried to do that. I have tried to love good deeds and do good deeds so that when I die, they will go with me. The second lesson that he mentions, he says, I have read in the Quran that Allahﷻ says, وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ سورة النازیات میں اللہ سبحانہ وتعالی نے کہا تھا لیکن جو رب کے پاس جل جلالہو پر بحیثیت کرنے والا تھا رب کے پیچھے اور وہ اپنے خطا فرمائے گا کہ وہ خطا فرمائے گا اور خطا فرمائے گا جنہا وہ اس کے پیچھے ہوگا اللہ سبحانہ و تعالیٰ کہتا ہے کہ انہا جنہا یہ ہے جو ہوا ہے جنہا اس کے پیچھے ہوگا اب لہذا کہہ سکتا ہے کہ میں جانو جلالہ جلالہو کہ جو اس کے پیارے پیارے پیارے پیارے پہنچیں گے جلالہ جلالہو ایک عذیبہ دن ہے اور اس کے ساتھ وہ اپنے نعمتوں سے جنگ اور جنگائی سے بردر بھرنے والے ہیں تو بالکل جنہ کو وہاںradoنا جائے گا۔ اس کا جنگ اور جنگ ہونے والے ہوئے گارے گا۔ وہ کہتا ہے کہ میں نے اپنے نعمتوں کی محرومی نگاہوں سے بہترین آگیا pains اور میں نے اللہ سبحانہ وتعالیٰ کے دعوت میں بہترین ہوئے گئے۔ اب یہ حقیقت ہے کہ ہم اللہ سبحانہ وتعالیٰ پہنچیں گے۔ یہ ہمارے لئے کوئی بہترین نہیں ہے۔ یہ کچھ نئی نہیں ہے۔ کچھ بہترین نہیں ہے۔ ہم سب یہ جانتے ہیں۔ کیا ہم یہ جانتے ہیں؟ There is an intellectual level which we know in our head that this will happen. And then there is a very visceral level where we know this in the deepest part of our being. And the sign of that, the sign of knowing it at a visceral level is action. This is action. Something we know at a superficial level, sati, this we know that does not produce action. Action happens when you know something at the level, at the visceral level, literally in your heart, in your being. The thing about that, the way we even think, for example, if somebody says child, you are are not in your mind, you are not seeing C-H-I-L-D. Those who have children, the face of your child comes. Those who have older children, the face of your son or daughter who today is in their 20s, 30s, 40s, you will remember them as they were as babies, as little children. They run around, one-year-old, two-year-old. It brings a smile to your lips because in are in your mind you are seeing that image that is so real for you the sign of something being real is this i always give the example of you know knowing some place and then when you are going there you are thinking differently the other day i mentioned to you of knowing that there is a tiger there is a lion but when you see it in front of you very different. Recently, we went to Africa and in one of the game sanctuaries, there is part of a rehabilitation project. So, there are lions and tigers and they are behind electric fences. So, you can walk there and you can see they are two feet away, but there is an electric fence. Now, the same animal, if the fence is not there, what will happen? Same electric fence is the wire, but the animal also has learnt that wire has current in it, so it won't go near it. But how do you know there is current? You didn't check at this moment, maybe somebody switched it off, we don't know. The animal also doesn't know, so it still doesn't attack you, because it thinks there is some current in it. But the same thing, you are seeing it from behind a fence, and if the fence is not there, then what will happen to your blood pressure, what will happen to your heart rate? Very different. My mother used to tell this story, that there was a king who, one day he went with his whole court and entourage on a cruise, on a boat cruise. So they are going and one of the people in that entourage who was on the boat, he was afraid of water and he was afraid of why he got on the boat in the first place, I don't know, anyway he was there. So he was making a lot of noise, oh my God, we will all drown and this will happen and that will happen, what will happen if you fall in the water. So he made such a nuisance that the king King said to one of his, whoever is there, he said to him, tie a rope to his ankle, make sure he doesn't die and throw him in the river and drag him behind the boat. So they did that. They tied a rope around his ankle and threw him in the water and dragged him along for some time and almost when he has drunk a lot of water and so on, they hauled him back up and you know now he is completely drenched he is drunk God knows how many gallons of river water he sat there in the boat quiet absolutely not a sound because he understood what does it mean to drown he had never drowned before he had never been in the water before so he is making a lot of oh what will happen but once he is in the water and outside now he understands what is the meaning of drowning he didn't drown but he understands what does it mean to be actually in the water and going up and down now he understands so immediately his life changes he doesn't make all this noise he knows the reality so when we think about the akhira we have to ask ourselves how real is it to me how real is jannah how real is zanahar said an alim is to say that if allah subhanahu wa ta'ala causes jannah to come in front of me here i can see it with my eyes, the level of my Iman or my level of my belief in Jannah will not change because I already believe in it with such a level of reality that if I actually see it, there will be no surprises. That is the level of reality with Jannah and with Naar. So the Sahaba, this was the thing with the Sahaba, Ridhman-ur-Rahim alayhi majma'in, Rasulullah used to describe these things of the Akhira, the Jannah and Naar and the Day Day of Judgement and so on, these were so real to them. And because they were so real to them, they did what they did. We know the… I mentioned this story before, the story of Abu Dahdah al-Ansari, Radhiyallahu Anhu. So many of these stories, Suhaib al-Rumi, Radhiyallahu Anhu for example, people who migrated from from Makkah. It's a long story, beautiful story. He was called Rumi because he had been a slave of the Romans. He was actually from Yemen and he was the son of one of the chiefs of Yemen. His mother took him for a holiday to her family's place which was near the sea. اور جب انہوں نے اپنے گھنٹے میں تھا، ایک رومانی ایک نیچے پہلے، انہوں نے جن کے ساتھ خراب کرا اور وہ کوئی بھی کوئی کوئی بھی کھانا کرتے ہیں اور ایک آدمی تھا، یہاں تھا۔ And they took him away, sold him off, some Roman bought him, so he stayed in that Roman's house, he grew up there, so he could speak Latin, so his Arabic was accented. So the Arabs used to call him Rumi, they used to call him, he's a Roman. He was not a Roman, he was an Arab, he was a Yemeni Arab. So, anyway, eventually he found himself in Makkah. One of the big people from Makkah, Quraish, he purchased him, so he was a slave of one of the Quraish in Makkah. So when he came there, he said to his master, he said, look, I am educated, I am a trader by profession, I know how to trade and so on, so there is no point in making me dig holes or something, let me trade and you and I will be partners. So, you take the majority of the profit, I will take some, but I will also make money, you also make money. So, it's beneficial for you, I do all the work, you get the same system that to this day in South Arabia, you take a kafil, that guy is getting money for nothing. So anyway, so that was their arrangement. In that process, Sahiba Rumi Radhe Laan, he became very wealthy, I mean, in the sense of he had accumulated a lot of wealth. So he used to He Had obviously Kept it somewhere Safe And Then he Met Rasulullah And he accepted Islam So now his owner Got very Worried and concerned He Said He Is Not About Islam He Said This Fellow Now He Becomes Muslim And then you know He Either he Will Go Away With Muhammad Somewhere or Something And I Will Lose This Source Of Income So he used to keep A Strong Watch on him Then Rasool Allah went to Madinah, he migrated to Madinah. So then the watch on Soebar Rumi got even more doubled because he was afraid that he will go away to Madinah. But that's exactly what he wanted to do. So one day he gave them the slip and he took off. So after he left, they realized that he's gone. So they sent people to chase him and bring him back. So, now he's in the desert, he's going, he's running, behind him, this whole bunch of the posse from Makkah is behind him. And so, Rumi realized that he can't escape because there are too many of them and so on. So, there was a hillock, a stony hillock, he climbed to the top of that and he was on top of the hill. So, these people surrounded him. So, as they surrounded him and they came up, So, everyone also realized that this can only end in one way because there are that many of them. If I am just sitting here, I can't just sit here forever. At some point, I will sleep. At some point, they can take turns in sleeping....
